Bob's Adventure has begun

Just to let you know Bob is now on his trip and he has posted from Miami on his way south. You can read about it here.

Bob mentioned that he will be in the Beagle Channel soon. He said he does not know why it was named that. It was named for the H. M. S. Beagle which Darwin was on on his trip.

Wiki says:

The channel was named after the ship HMS Beagle during its first hydrographic survey of the coasts of the southern part of South America which lasted from 1826 to 1830. During that expedition, under the overall command of the Australian Commander Phillip Parker King, the Beagle's captain Pringle Stokes committed suicide and was replaced by captain Robert FitzRoy. The ship continued the survey in the second voyage of the Beagle under the command of captain FitzRoy who took Charles Darwin along as a gentleman's companion, giving him opportunities as an amateur naturalist. Darwin had his first sight of glaciers when they reached the channel on 29 January 1833, and wrote in his field notebook "many glaciers beryl blue most beautiful contrasted with snow".^[4]